I just got 5 ordered and just surpassed the 3 Litecoin transaction confirmations required to complete the order placement requirement so it is now locked in! That's right, you can pay in crypto (or by other methods like paypal as well). The design is as shown in the image below (the coin to the right) and the image shown was taken straight from the ordering website https://steemsilverround.com/
If you're not a silver stacker and are not familiar with what's going on here, allow me to explain...
The Birth and Growth of ssg-community
Back in 2017 a small group of silver and gold enthusiasts started a tag called #steemsilvergold on the platform. I "joined" the group (started posting under that tag a couple of time per month) around August of last year to show off my recent buys, some of my favorite bullion I've got stashed away, and things like that.
I met more active members of that little group like @raybrockman and some others (Ray stands out for some reason, he's just a memorable kinda character I guess), then over the next several months the tag became more popular and the group grew as more silver and gold bugs joined steemit and discovered this sub-community. Then the first voting bot was created in late 2017 and now we have a total of 2 of them and from what I can tell well over 100 members of the community. It's pretty awesome!
The steem silver round
At some point last year the idea was proposed to make a silver coin dedicated to the steemit community and thus the steem silver round was born. This is the 2017 version which was done by @phelimint and there were 1500 of them minted and all included certificates of authenticity and serial numbers. They're really great pieces and the project coordinators did a really good job getting them minted and sent out in a timely manner. These 2 are mine mine mine! I'll never let them go.
So now we have this year's project underway and orders are being taken
And if you don't want to miss out I'd suggest placing an order kind of soon. Not to sound like a pushy salesman, but they went quickly last year and there was less attention focused on them then. Now we also have roughly twice as many steemit accounts and a lot more #ssg-community members so I suspect the 2500 that are being made this year will go quickly.
The project this year is being headed up by @sevinwilson and as I said there is a website that you order them on. This link will take you straight to the page where you can put what you want in your cart and get to ordering...
https://steemsilverround.com/shop/
The timeline as far as I know is still a moving target, but I think they're anticipating roughly 6-8 weeks to start shipping them. You can find a lot more detail in @sevinwilson latest post about the project here https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@sevinwilson/pre-order-the-2018-steem-silver-round-now-www-steemsilverround-com
And hello there! That's my order confirmation in my inbox! Got it before I finished making the post. I had just ordered and sent the LTC when I started typing this post. Maybe that'll satisfy my silver cravings (stackitus) for a bit...
Now that's service! I'd like to thank those who have worked to make both the 2017 and 2018 silver rounds projects happen--I know it is a lot of work and it is greatly appreciated. It's nice to have crypto and Steem and all, but it's also a good feeling to have something physical that you can hold in your hand that represents a little piece of the steemit platform and your investment in it.
Happy stacking! And PLEASE help spread the word to anyone you know who might want one of these. If they sell out then the markup can go as high as 50-100% almost immediately. At least that's what I saw people who missed out last year offering to pay for one of them.